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In a career-spanning interview, the singer reflects on his decades-long life in music, from his earliest childhood memories to the artists who shaped his work and what his own songs have meant to others.

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The Summer of Soul soundtrack is finally here, along with a breathtaking debut from singer Amber Mark, a mind-bender from jazz saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Various — The Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Featured Song: "Don'tcha Hear Me Callin' to Ya?"
2. Lady Wray — Piece of Me
Featured Song: "Where Were You"
3. Samm Henshaw — Untidy Soul
Featured Songs: "Thoughts and Prayers," "Chicken Wings," "Keyon (Interlude)"
4. Amber Mark — Three Dimensions Deep
Featured Song: "One"
5. Immanuel Wilkins — The 7th Hand
Featured Song: "Don't Break"

Other notable releases for Jan. 28:
Anaïs Mitchell — Anaïs Mitchell
Babyface Ray — Face
Beirut — Artifacts
Greg Spero — The Chicago Experiment
St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Alien Coast


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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Marissa Lorusso share their favorite new music of the week, including the latest from PUP and the curious and beautiful sounds of Isik Kural.

Featured artists and tracks:

1. PUP: "Robot Writes A Love Song," from THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
2. MAITA: "Loneliness," from I Just Want To Be Wild For You
3. KAINA: "Apple," from It Was a Home
4. Uwade: "Do You See The Light Around Me?" (Single)
5. Imarhan: "Achinkad," from Aboogi
6. Isik Kural: "paperhat," from in february


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Emo rapper and singer iann dior, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, Americana singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan and more land on this week's shortlist for the best new releases out on Jan. 21.

Featured Albums:
1. iann dior — on to better things
Featured Songs: "V12" and "hopeless romantic"
2. Che Noir — Food For Thought
Featured Song: "Communion"
3. Simone Dinnerstein — Undersong
Featured Songs: Erik Satie's "Gnossienne No. 3" and Philip Glass' "Mad Rush"
4. Aoife O'Donovan — Age of Apathy
Featured Song: "Sister Starling"
5. Jana Horn — Optimism
Featured Song: "Optimism"
6. Tanya Tagaq — Tongues
Featured Songs: "Earth Monster" and "Colonizer"

Other notable releases for Jan. 21:
Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch
Boris — W
Boy Harsher — The Runner (Original Soundtrack)
Jake Xerxes Fussell — Good and Green Again
Janis Ian — The Light at the End of the Line
Pedro the Lion — Havasu
Young T & Bugsey — Truth Be Told


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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks, including one from Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell, Frank Turner's dream-inspired ode to his late friend, Scott Hutchison and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Frank Turner: "A Wave Across A Bay," from FTHC
2. Anaïs Mitchell: "On Your Way (Felix Song)," from Anaïs Mitchell
3. Janis Ian: "Better Times Will Come," from The Light at the End of the Line
4. Midlake: "Bethel Woods," from For The Sake of Bethel Woods
5. Shamir: "Reproductive," from Heterosexuality
6. Keeley Forsyth: "I Stand Alone," from Limbs

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include FKA Twigs' CAPRISONGS, SICK! from Earl Sweatshirt, joyful singalongs from The Lumineers and more.

Featured Albums:
1. FKA Twigs — CAPRISONGS
Featured Songs: "papi bones" and "track girl interlude"
2. Earl Sweatshirt — SICK!
Featured Song: "God Laughs"
3. The Lumineers — Brightside
Featured Song: "Where We Are"
4. Bonobo — Fragments
Featured Song: "Rosewood"
5. Cordae — From A Birds Eye View
Featured Song: "Champagne Glasses"
6. Linying — There Could Be Wreckage Here
Featured Song: "Faith"

Other notable releases for Jan. 14: Blood Red Shoes — GHOSTS ON TAPE; Broken Social Scene — Old Dead Young; Cat Power — Covers; Elvis Costello and The Imposters — The Boy Named If.

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, along with NPR Music's curator of the weird and loud, Lars Gotrich.

Featured Artists And Tracks:
1. Kae Tempest: "More Pressure," from The Line Is A Curve
2. Pigeon Pit: "Empties," from Feather River Canyon Blues
3. Souk: "Sooner or Later," from Souk Demo
4. Basia Bulat: "The Garden," from The Garden
5. Barrie: "Quarry," from Barbara
6. The Smile: "You Will Never Work In Television Again" (Single)
7. Yard Act: "Rich," from The Overload

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Our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast take a look Spotify's annual end-of-year event, and viral sensation, 'Wrapped.' In 2019 the service started pairing its year-end listening data with eye-catching and extremely shareable graphics. But, when the algorithm curates so much of our listening experience... are we just creating a perpetual feedback loop?

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In this special episode from NPR's How I Built This with Guy Raz, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan talk about how, as college students in the late '80s, they created one of the most influential indie labels of all time, Merge Records

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Our friends at NPR's Throughline podcast take a deep dive into the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac, examining the ways the band confronted the monsters around us and within us at the dawn of a new millennium.

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